Women's football in France


The earliest known women's football match involving the French was a women's French team versus the Dick, Kerr's Ladies team from Preston, played at Goodison Park, Liverpool on Boxing Day 1920, attracted a crowd of 53,000 with another 10–15,000 reportedly turned away because the ground was full.
Although popular amongst girls, many experience prejudice and discrimination.

National competition

was created in 1918 and placed under the aegis of the Fédération des Sociétés Féminines Sportives de France, a women's football organization led by pioneer Alice Milliat. The competition was organized for fourteen consecutive years until in 1932 female football was banned. In 1975 the women's football was officially rehabilitated and Division 1 Féminine returned to be organized thanks to the funds made available by the Fédération Française de Football. With the 2009-2010 season it went to professionalism, being the contracts previously signed semi-professional.
Until the 1991–92 season, the championship included a first group stage followed by a direct elimination phase with a final to decree the winning team of the title. Starting from the 1992–93 season he went to an Italian group with round and back bets.
Over the years there has been an alternation between the winning teams of the championship. In the 1970s, the Stade de Reims won the first three championships and in all five titles over eight years, from 1974 to 1982. The 1980s saw the dominance of the VGA Saint-Maur, able to win six titles between 1983 and 1990, four consecutive years between 1985 and 1988. In the 1990s there was an alternation in the wins of the Lyon-Juvisy championship before the four consecutive titles won by Toulouse between 1999 and 2002. From 2007 to 2018, Division 1 Féminine saw Lyon dominate and win twelve consecutive championships.

National team

, manager of French women's national teams between 1993 and 2013, has done much to improve the France women's national football team.